Fine Wine

Century R is an official partner of Cultwine Ltd. in U.K. Cult Wines is one of the world’s leading wine investment companies with a global client base and assets under management
exceeding 90 million pound.

The company was founded in London in 2007 by Philip and Tom
Gearing and has since opened offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore to underpin its expansion into Asia.

Cult Wines provides fine wine investment advice,
both on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis
using algorithmically based models applied across
historic and projected
data.

The company tailors each investor’s portfolio to their specific risk appetite, investment level and target returns. The firm’s rigorous due diligence and investor protection measures
help to ensure that only the highest-quality assets are included its investors’ portfolios.

Investing in wine, whether that be a rare bottle, a case of highly-regarded First Growths or an entire cellar, has consistently yielded decent low-risk returns.

In fact, for the last 50 years the fine wine market has remained stable, despite the world’s economic crises. Wine can be purchased independently, via merchants or traders, or at fine wine auctions. For many oenophiles, the act of obtaining sought-after bottles and building a collection is just as enjoyable as the financial benefits afforded by investing this way. Wine is a wasting asset, so investment is tax free, and while it – like all investment options – is not entirely risk free, it offers reasonable risk to return correlation. An investment strategy that accommodated high or medium risk would naturally yield higher returns.

Despite the economic tumult of recent times, the fine wine market has demonstrated
consistent growth over the last 50 years – and growth overall during the last two centuries.
Crucially, fine wine managed to escape the pressure put on other financial markets towards
the end of 2015 and even outperformed gold, copper, the FTSE 100 and the S&P 500,
making it the most profitable investment available.